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50+ Gratitude Quotes for Kids (Plus Free Printable Coloring Pages)
Help kids discover the joy of gratitude with inspiring quotes and free printables.
Gratitude quotes for kids can help children think about what it means to be thankful and appreciate the people, experiences, and everyday moments in their lives. At home or in the classroom, these quotes about gratitude can also provide reading practice and inspire thoughtful conversations, writing activities, and gratitude journal prompts. Kids can also get creative with our free printable gratitude coloring pages, perfect for a quiet independent activity at home or in the classroom.
Printable Gratitude Quotes for Kids
Kids can color and personalize these free printable gratitude quotes, then display their finished creations at home or in the classroom as cheerful reminders to be thankful.
More Gratitude Quotes for Kids
“Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.”
– Robert Braathe
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
— William Arthur Ward
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
—Robert Brault
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
— Willie Nelson
“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Journal
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
—Ralph H. Blum
“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”
– William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
—Jean-Baptiste Massieu
“To what is good I open the doors of my being.”
– Helen Keller, Optimism
“Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
– Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz
“To find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lantern-Bearers
“Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.”
– Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
— Alphonse Karr, paraphrase/translation from Lettres écrites de mon jardin
“Gratitude makes a small house feel like a big home.”
—Unknown
“In giving, a man receives more than he gives.”
– George MacDonald, Mary Marston
“We ought never to let this day pass without giving our neighbors something to be thankful for, instead of taking all the time to think of our own mercies.”
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, from the book Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
“The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.”
— Mary Davis
“A grateful heart is a happy heart.”
— Unknown
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse
“I am grateful for what I am & have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
–Henry David Thoreau, from the book Letters to Various Persons
“Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot.”
— Traditional Hausa proverb
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
— Unknown
“Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
—Cynthia Ozick
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
— E. B. White from the book Charlotte’s Web
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”
—Melody Beattie
“This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.”
— Maya Angelou
“My wealth is not possession but enjoyment.”
–Henry David Thoreau, Letters to Various Persons
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
—Seneca
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude
“A grateful mind is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the other virtues.”
—Cicero, from the Pro Plancio speech
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.”
— Wallace D. Wattles
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
— William Arthur Ward
“To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.”
– George MacDonald, Mary Marston
“It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world.”
– L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“For to miss the joy is to miss all.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lantern-Bearers
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.”
–Unknown
“The game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what ’twas.”
– Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
— Marcel Proust
“When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”
— Vietnamese proverb
“There is always something to be thankful for.”
— Unknown
“The heart that gives thanks never runs out of reasons to smile.”
— Aloo Denish Obiero
“It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.”
— Unknown
“Little seeds of thanks grow into big gardens of joy.”
— Unknown
“Big or small, I’m thankful for it all.”
–Unknown
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the book Essays: First Series
“A thankful heart sees blessings everywhere it looks.”
— Unknown
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